AKSW tools prominently featured in TÜB?TAK
Börtecin Ege wrote an article on the Semantic Web in the December issue of TÜB?TAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) prominently featuring DBpedia, Relfinder, LIMES, SPARQL Benchmark and other AKSW related research projects. See Semantik Web Tübitak Bilim Teknik 12 2011.

NLP Interchange Format (NIF) 1.0 Spec, Demo and Reference Implementation
The NLP Interchange Format (NIF) is an RDF/OWL-based format that aims to achieve interoperability between Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, language resources and annotations. The core of NIF consists of a vocabulary, which can represent Strings as RDF resources. A special URI Design is used to pinpoint annotations to a part of a document. These [...]

DBpedia SPARQL Benchmark paper wins ISWC2011 best-paper award
The closing ceremony of ISWC2011 in Bonn is just over and we are excited to have won the best research paper award with our paper: Mohamed Morsey, Jens Lehmann, Sören Auer, Axel Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo: DBpedia SPARQL Benchmark ? Performance Assessment with Real Queries on Real Data. To appear in Proceedings of 10th International Semantic [...]